Improvement in machines for making measure-slips



A. F. MOLLRING. Machine for Making Measure-Slips.

No. 222,932. Patented 090.23, 1879.

INVENTOR ATTORN EY NPEI'ERSA PHOTO-U'IHQGRAPME wAsmNeTON. D C.

UNITED STATEs PATENT OEEIcE.

ARNoLn F. MOLLRING, on NEBRAsKA oITY, NEBRASKA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MAbHlNES FOR MAKING MEASURE-'SLIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,932, dated December 23, 1879 application filed September 29, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARNOLD F. MOLLRING, of Nebraska City, in the county of Otoe and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Machines for Making Measure-Slips for Dry-Goods; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull,

clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to'the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a longitudinal vertical section of my invention. Fig. 2 is a top view of the typewheel, and Figs. 3 and 4 are details.

This invention has relation to improvements in machines for printing and cutting measuring-strips designed to be rolled up with the goods for the purpose of conveniently measuring the same, and indicating, without the use of the yardstick, any desired length in selling the same.

The nature of the invention will be fully set forth hereinafter.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates a strong frame having near one end the uprights C6, in the upper ends of which is journaled the type-wheel B. This wheel may be of any desired diameter, according to the length of the strips sought to be printed, and of a width, say, of two feet, which will allow twenty-four strips one inch wide to be printed at a time. This wheel, if designed to-print strips twenty-five yardsin length, is provided at its perimeter with an equal number of rectangular strips, 2, in which will be set type in rows one inch apart, and in regular order from one to twenty-fit'e. Intermediate to the typeholding strips 43 are other strips, '5, tapering to an edge from end to end, and having their edges equidistant from the axis of the wheel with the printing-surface of the type. These strips 1; print across the measuring-strips the half-yard mark. As the wheel revolves, the type and the edges of "the half-yard strips *5 come in contact with an ink-roller, C, to and upon which the ink is spread evenly by a distributing-roller"; D. The rollers O D are held in yielding contact with the typewheel by suitable springs b.

E indicates a storing-roller, upon which the material to be printed is wound. This roller is arranged at the lower part of the frame, nearly directly under the type-wheel, and the paper passes from it in front of and around a tension-roller, F, arranged above and somewhat in front of the storing-roll aforesaid. It passes thence upward and backward over and around a roller, G, which may be denominated the platen, and which is so situated with regard to the type-wheel that the types and the half-yard strips bear upon the paper as it passes over the roller G. After passing over this roller the paper passes to the front downward under a tension-roller, H, and is secured to a winding-roller, I, at the front end of the frame.

Intermediate to the rollers H and I is a mandrel, J, on, or about on, a level with rollerH, upon which are secured at intervals of an inch a gang of circular cutters, K, the cuttingedges of which are above the highest point of tension roller H aforesaid and the lowest point of the winding-roller I. This roller has upon the end of one of its journals a mastergear, L, that engages a pinion, 0, upon the end of the cutter-mandrel J, and imparts motion thereto in an opposite direction. Upon the adjacent ends of the measuring platen-roller and ink-roller, respectively, arethe pulleys d 01, connected by an endless belt, 0.

It will be seen that all the rollers derive motion through the medium of the paper band I which, owing to the tension-rollers, acts as a transmitter from the winding-roller I.

The measuring-roller G is provided at one end with a projecting tappet, f, that at. each complete rotation of the said roller comes in contact with metallic cogs 0, projecting radially from the adjacent edge of the type-wheel, and imparts an intermittently-rotating movement thereto. end of the type and half-yard strips 2' andi aforesaid. At each complete revolution of the measuring-roller a half-yard of the paper band is measured off, and that length marked off on the same, the said roller being one-half yard in circumference.

It will be seen that the entire apparatus derives motion through the paper band from the windin g-roller, and that as the said band tigh tens the eutting-knives will divide it'into strips.

N is a lever pivoted to the upright, and de- These cogs are arranged at the signed to raise the type-Wheel slightly at one end, so that it may be turned backward or forward to any desired starting-point.

The type-wheel may, if desired, be held against backward rotation by means of a spring, a pawl-and-ratchet device, or other means.

What I claim. as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a machine for cutting and printing measuring-slips for roll-goods, the combination, with the type-Wheel B, having the alternately-arranged type-carrying strips 41 and the beveled strips 'i', of the platen-roller G, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with a platen measureroll, G, an inking-roller, O, a storing-reel, E, tension-rolls F H, a Winding-reel, I, and a n1 a11- drel, J, carrying the spaced cutters, of the intermittently-rotating Wheel B, carrying on its perimeter the type-holdingstrips i and-the beveled sharp-edged strips '5, alternately arranged, substantially as specified.

3. The combination of the type-wheel B, measuring-roller G, inking-roller O, storingroller E, carrying the paper band P, the tension-rollers 1 H, and the Winding-reel I, and the mandrel J, carrying the cutters K, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed. my name in the presence of two witnesses,

ARNOLD FBEDBIOK MOLLRING.

Witnesses:

O. W. SEYMOUR, JOHN H. DAHL. 

